Yuval Pick

My choreographic research is guided by the idea that each human being has innate knowledge that dance has the power to unveil.
– Yuval Pick

After an extensive career as a choreographer, dancer and teacher, Yuval Pick was appointed director of the Centre Chorégraphique National (National Choreographic Center) in Rillieux-la-Pape in August 2011. He studied at the Bat-Dor Dance School in Tel Aviv, then joined the Batsheva Dance Company in 1991. Four years later he started working as a guest artist with Tero Saarinen, Carolyn Carlson and Russell Maliphant, among others. In 1999 he joined the Ballet de l’Opéra National de Lyon, and founded his own company, The Guests, in 2002.

Upon his arrival at the Centre Chorégraphique National, Yuval Pick founded a new dance company and developed a rich repertoire of works characterized by their elaborate vocabulary of movement, featuring music by major international composers.